Matt Donovan (poet)
Matt Donovan (born Ohio) is an American poet and nonfiction writer. A native of Hudson, Ohio, Donovan graduated from Vassar College with a BA, from Lancaster University with an MA, and from New York University with an MFA. He teaches at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.[1]
He is the author of two collections of poetry – Vellum (Mariner, 2007) and the chapbook Ten Burnt Lakes (Tupelo Press, forthcoming 2017) – as well as the collection of essays, A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption (Trinity University Press, 2016). His work appeared in AGNI,[2] Blackbird,[3] Poetry,[4] The Kenyon Review,[5] The Gettysburg Review,[6] The Threepenny Review,[7] and The Virginia Quarterly Review,[8] among others literary journals.
He is the recipient of a Rome Prize in Literature, a Whiting Award [9] a Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, a Lannan Writing Residency Fellowship, the Larry Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Creative Capital award.[10][11]
He is currently collaborating on the chamber opera "Inheritance" with artist Ligia Bouton, soprano Susan Narucki, and composer Lei Liang.
Works
Books
- Vellum. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2007. ISBN 978-0-618-82212-6.
- A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption. Trinity University Press. 2016.
- Ten Burnt Lakes. Tupelo Press. Forthcoming 2017.
Essays
- "Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii". The Threepenny Review. 131. Fall 2012.
References
- ↑ http://www.santafeuniversity.edu/ProgramsOfStudy/CreativeWriting/Faculty.aspx
- ↑ http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/M/Matt-Donovan.html
- ↑ http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v7n2/poetry/donovan_m/index.htm
- ↑ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/toc/1072
- ↑ http://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/summer11/index.php
- ↑ http://www.gettysburgreview.com/selections/past_selections/index.dot?inode=2586521&pageTitle=%E2%80%9CNight%20Train%E2%80%9D:%20A%20Listener%E2%80%99s%20Guide&crumbTitle=%E2%80%9CNight%20Train%E2%80%9D:%20A%20Listener%E2%80%99s%20Guide&author=Matt%20Donovan&story=true
- ↑ http://www.threepennyreview.com/tocs/75_f98.html
- ↑ http://www.vqronline.org/author/5830/matt-donovan/
- ↑ http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/matt-donovan
- ↑ http://www.news.vcu.edu/news/Matthew_Donovans_Vellum_selected_for_VCUs_Levis_Reading_Prize
- ↑ "Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape the Future". creative-capital.org. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
External links
- www.mattdonovanwriting.com).
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- James Longenbach (July 22, 2007). "Writing in the Margins". The New York Times.
- http://coldfrontmag.com/tag/matt-donovan